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Sunday, February 12, 2012

How An Environmentalist Might Support Northern Gateway

From Simon Donner, who studies coral reefs:

If the Harper government were not so consistently obstinate on federal climate policy, people like me (a climate scientist who has long been wary of the NIMBYism of environmental groups) might not become vociferous opponents of projects like Northern Gateway. We are forced to oppose individual carbon-intensive projects because the government refuses to listen to scientific or economic reason on climate change.

[..]

My compromise solution is a federal carbon pricing system.

A carbon-pricing system, like those of British Columbia and Australia, would not necessarily prevent pipeline construction. Rather, it could allow the market to decide whether the costs of a new pipeline outweigh the benefits...
True but NIMBYISM can be justified in some cases. A spill could do enormous damage to the West coast fishing and tourism industries. A wind farm, on the other hand, makes a "whooshing" noise that some find annoying.
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